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2. How To Get Rid of Mealybugs and Scale Insects on Plants - AOL

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   Gardening expert Melinda Myers shares her sure-fire tips on how to get rid of mealybugs. Also, learn how to get rid of scale insects on plants. The post How To Get Rid of Mealybugs and Scale ...

3. Scale insect - Wikipedia

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   Several other monophagous scale insects, especially those on islands, are threatened by coextinction due to threats faced by their host plants. [10] Most scale insects are herbivores, feeding on phloem sap drawn directly from the plant's vascular system, but a few species feed on fungal mats and fungi, such as some species in the genus ...

4. How To Get Rid Of Whiteflies So They Don't Destroy Your Plants

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   Although you may think house plants benefit from a summer outdoors, you risk the introduction of pests such as aphids, mealybugs, and scales. These pests may then be brought back indoors on the ...

5. Diaspididae - Wikipedia

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   For this reason these insects are commonly referred to as armored scale insects. As it is so robust and firmly attached to the host plant, the scale often persists long after the insect has died. As it is so robust and firmly attached to the host plant, the scale often persists long after the insect has died.

6. Physical pest control - Wikipedia

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   For farmers, fire has been a powerful technique used to destroy insect breeding grounds. It is used to burn the top of the soil in order to kill the insects that lie there. Unfortunately, this can present some drawbacks. Fire can make the soil much less effective or get rid of the insects that are beneficial to the plants.

7. How to Get Rid of Spider Mites on Your Plants - AOL

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8. Icerya purchasi - Wikipedia

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   Icerya purchasi (common name: cottony cushion scale) is a scale insect that feeds on more than 80 families of woody plants, [1] most notably on Citrus and Pittosporum. Originally described in 1878 from specimens collected in New Zealand as pests of kangaroo acacia and named by W.M. Maskell "after the Rev. Dr. Purchas who, [he] believe[d], first ...

9. Mealybug - Wikipedia

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   Mealybug females feed on plant sap, normally in roots or other crevices, and in a few cases the bottoms of stored fruit. They attach themselves to the plant and secrete a powdery wax layer (hence the name "mealy" bug) used for protection while they suck the plant juices. The males are short-lived, as they do not feed at all as adults and only ...